| 1. Dhamma Assembly Hall |
| The eighty disciples - The Lord Buddha preached dhamma sermons to his eighty disciples led by sariputta & Moggallana at the Jetawanaramaya in Saviththi. These occasions have been depicted in murals at many temples in the Island. But the Dhamma Assembly Hall at this temple has been done in sculpture in well proportioned images each different form the other as in the case of a live assembly of Sanga at a sermon. This creation is a blessing to all Buddhists the world over. This is the only such creation to be found in Sri Lanka and a thing to be proud of by not only the southerners by all Sri Lankans. |
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| 2. Dharmapala Jataka |
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The story of the king who killed his own child in his drunkenness
The king was in a high state of drunkenness when he returned form a spree of enjoyment in the royal parks. The queen who was enjoying with their little child in her motherly bliss forgot to pay obeisance to the king on his arrival. This infuriated the kin who in his rage ordered the executioner to cut off the hands and leg of the little prince and slice the body into seven parts resembling seven petals of a shoe flower.
This heinous crime resulted in an immediate punishment to the king when hell |
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| fairs rose form the ground and burnet the king to ashes then and there. All this is depicted with sublime effect by the artist in the mural. Even the odious executioner is shown in the hateful and repulsive aspect he deserves. This certainly is an outstanding creation of the artist. |
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| 3. Andha Bhuta Jataka |
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A parable on the unconventional marriage and its consequences
A sixty years old Brahamin is married to a young girl and with passage of time another young man enters the scene and develops an affair with the wife. The husband who is unaware of this affair continues to shower his affections and love on his young wife placing utmost confidence in her.
One day this unfaithful women develops an atrocious desire to see her husband being knocked by her paramour and tells the husband that she wishto dance but that she unable to perform the dance while he is looking and requests him to blindfold his eyes. |
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| The husband whose love for his young wife knew ni bounds readily agrees and blindfold his eyes. There upon the paramour could deliver a hand knock on the head of the blindfold husband.
This is a story which look down on unconventional marriages. |
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| 4. Mihintalawaka Rock |
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The arrival of Arhant Mahinda in Sri Lanka bringing the Load Buddha's dhamma has been beautifully created. |
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| 5. The Story Of Puthigaththa Tissa |
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The mural depicts the occasion the compassionate one partially displayed the noble ideal of nursing the sick. |
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| 6. The Story of Nanda, The Cattle Slaughterer |
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This is a story that expounds the "ditta dhamma vedaneeya karma" (immediately effective karma) preached by the Load Buddha.
A person who had no appetite to eat without meat cuts off the tongue of the pet ox reared by him, friend it and was about to consume it when his own tongue fell to his plate. |
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| 7. Other Scene |
| Other scene beautifully sculptured include Devaradhanawa, Vidura Jataka, Placing of Sri Pada foot-print etc. These works of sculpture and art, a part form adding to the beauty of the temple creates an aura of mystic relief in the mind of the devotee enhancing his religious faith. |
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